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A Mathematician, a Physicist and an Engineer

by not_knuth on 4/21/21, 7:50 AM with 1 comments

  • by 174SIGSEGV on 4/21/21, 8:17 AM

    Some miscellaneous comments:

    Woman in a bar: This particular mathematician appears to be from the 5th century BC.

    Prime numbers: This reminds me of the Grothendieck prime, 57.

    Hunting: I would modify the statisticians statement to "on average, we got him", but that doesn't sound as funny.

    Theorem: I would have thought that the mathematician would just define, without loss of generality, the interior of his prison cell to be 'outside', much like in the subsequent joke about fences.